Raheem Sterling's Chelsea transfer is moving quickly and that is a credit to new owner Todd Boehly who has pulled out all the stops to ensure that the Man City winger will be signed potentially before pre-season starts this weekend at Cobham.
After weeks of speculation as to what the Blues' £200million transfer window could look like, certain targets are now emerging as prime candidates in Thomas Tuchel's much-needed attacking re-shuffle. It took for Romelu Lukaku's impending loan move to Inter Milan for movement to be seen on this front. Sterling has been Chelsea's prime attacking target this summer and some sources have even gone on to jump the gun in announcing the transfer as a 'done deal' already in collaboration with Gabriel Jesus' move to Arsenal. However, football.london understands that those claims are a little premature with a new and improved bid for the 27-year-old expected to be lodged on Tuesday.
A compromise of around £45m is expected to be agreed upon between the two clubs and how quickly things have progressed on this front can be put down to how Boehly has acted already in the best interests of the club and Tuchel in his new interim sporting director type of role that he has taken up as a result of Marina Granovskaia stepping down. The Manchester Evening News has revealed that the part LA Dodgers owner personally contacted the Three Lions Internationals' camp himself to get the ball rolling on a transfer which is forecasted to be completed by the end of this week, depending on how the Citizens react to the Blues' request of also wanting Nathan Ake included in. negotiations.
